Terrible beginning leads to bright end for WWII vet

10:36 PM,
Dec. 6, 2012

World War II vet Tom Aiani, 89, enlisted after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Written by

Mike Donahue
Desert Valley Times

Seventy years ago the U.S. was plunged chin deep into WWII when 353 Japanese Imperial Navy fighter planes, bombers and torpedo planes smashed the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The shocking and brutal attack in which 2,402 Americans were killed rocked the nation like nothing previously. The U.S. Navy's eight battleships were damaged, four of them sank. Additionally, three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship and one minelayer were either damaged or sunk outright. ...